Motorhome travel is up by 143 percent, and this year’s season is only getting started.
California RV insurance is experiencing a boon as recreational vehicles begin another popular season due to the pandemic’s impact on travel.

A massive fireworks explosion that left two people dead in Southern California earlier this week caused at least $3.2 million worth of damage, officials said Friday.

Over the past several years, the insurance industry in California has been plagued by waves of ‘bad faith failure to settle’ claims.

Last November the residents of California told the state, by a fairly substantial margin, to keep their labor employment law mittens off of rideshare gig workers. Proposition 22, designed to ‘define app-based transportation (rideshare) and delivery drivers as independent contractors and adopt labor and wage policies specific to app-based drivers and companies,’ passed with a 58.6% to 41.4% vote.

To help prepare homeowners protect themselves from the risk of wildfires – and to lower insurance rates at the same time – California insurance commissioner Ricardo Lara announced that there would be new incentives for owners of older homes who choose to make their properties more fireproof.

The monthly count of COVID-19 job injury claims reported to the California Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) soared to a record 32,549 cases in December, bringing the total number of COVID-19 claims for accident year (AY) 2020 to 103,712, or more than one out of every six workers’ comp claims with a 2020 injury date according to a new analysis by the California Workers’ Compensation Institute (CWCI).

Online cannabis advertising platform Weedmaps and a Southern California vape shop have been targeted with a wrongful death lawsuit in civil court by a mother who claims both are to blame in the shooting death of her son.

California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara is alerting citizens to review their insurance policies in order to protect themselves and their assets in anticipation of winter weather bringing the possibility of floods, mudslides, debris flows, and other disasters to recent wildfire burn areas throughout the state.

Professional services giant AECOM has commenced legal proceedings against Zurich American Insurance for breach of contract and violation of "the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing". AECOM alleges the insurer refused to pay out on coronavirus-related claims even though such coverage was not specifically excluded in AECOM’s "all-risk" property insurance policies.

Former Chargers tight end Antonio Gates and his wife are suing AIG Property Casualty Co., alleging the insurer breached a contract to compensate them for a nearly $1 million burglary at their Encino home.

An air-powered, inflatable costume, worn by a staff member on Christmas to spread holiday cheer, may be to blame for a coronavirus outbreak that infected dozens of workers in a hospital in San Jose, Calif., a hospital spokeswoman said.

In American Bankers Ins. Co. of Florida v. National Fire Ins. Co. of Hartford, __ F.Supp.3d __ (9/21/2020), the Northern District of California of the United States District Court had occasion to consider whether allegations in an underlying complaint triggered a duty to defend and a late notice defense to coverage.

If you live in the western United States, the 2020 wildfire season has probably felt even more intense than the previous record-breaking seasons of 2017 or 2018. The sheer scale of the events this year has broken new records.

Major League Baseball and all 30 of its teams are suing their insurance providers, citing billions of dollars in losses during the 2020 season played almost entirely without fans due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Driven by Santa Ana winds, a house fire in California’s Orange County spread to nearby brush and exploded to more than 5.5 square miles overnight.
Officials ordered mandatory evacuations for residents of Modjeska, Silverado and Williams canyons and for Foothill Ranch and parts of Portola Hills.